The second episode presents a reading by artist Matt Mullican, who is working between New York and Berlin. Born in California in 1951 where he studied at CalArts in the Post Studio Art Class by John Baldessari, Mullican’s work is often associated with the New York Pictures Generation, testing out the boundaries between reality and fiction in regards to images, signs and symbols that surround us in our everyday lives. For the podcast the artist himself reads his text based piece Birth to Death List from 1973, which is part of the physical exhibition in Vienna.

Music written and produced by Mike Ratledge
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Podcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport.

Riddles of the Sphinx (MM066)

Vol. 2 - Matt Mullican

Indistinct Chatter is a podcast series accompanying the group exhibition with the same title at LAYR Vienna curated by Pia-Marie Remmers. Each episode features one artist in the show, offering an extended space for their work and thoughts. 

Music written and produced by Mike Ratledge
mikeratledge.bandcamp.com

Podcast unterstützt durch österreichisches Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport. 
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Indistinct Chatter is a group exhibition dedicated to film, while at the same time
excluding it. Since the 1970s, exhibition spaces have become more frequently transformed into quasi movie theaters, with video works forming an integral part of contemporary artists' often immersive installations. But how do we attend to the sensation and pull of the cinematic when the moving image is absent? The works on view range from narrative snippets and movie props to closing credits, without showing a single motion picture. Temporality and movement are largely suspended, while the apparent subplots and by-products of the cinematic are put into the spotlight. A nod to Louise Lawler's "A Movie Will Be Shown Without The Picture" (1979) where the audience was invited to watch a full-length film in a regular cinema without its visual component, the exhibition tackles questions of performativity, narration and representation in front of and behind the screen.